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Summer Secrets
By Hermes, Patricia
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76145-074-0
- Publisher
- Tarrytown, N.Y. : Marshall Cavendish, c2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2004
Gr 5-8 During a long, lazy 1940s' Mississippi summer, 12-year-old Missy ponders in her journal events that are hard to understand. Her mother cuts off all her dear father's shirt buttons to feed them to the birds, gives away her clothes, and becomes reclusive and suspicious. Suddenly, Missy's two best friends have become "boy crazy," but they are still willing to accompany her on mischievous adventures. On one of them, Missy saves a child from drowning, and a wealthy doctor offers her a j...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
